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ATLANTA – Exel Inc., doing business as DHL Supply Chain (USA), an international logistics company, violated federal law and discriminated against an employee at its Forest Park, Georgia warehouses when it denied her a reasonable accommodation and then discharged her, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, Exel denied a reasonable accommodation to a disabled, former temporary employee who worked for Exel through a

BALTIMORE – Ourisman Edgewood I, Inc., trading as Ourisman Toyota 40, and parent company Ourisman Cars Management Company, LLC, which owns and operates approximately 50 car dealerships in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., violated federal employment law by failing to take effective remedial action in response to racial harassment of car salesmen, according to a new lawsuit the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

According to the suit, after a finance manager at

DENVER – Amer Sports Winter & Outdoor Company, also known as ASWO, a global recreational gear company with employees throughout the United States, will pay $350,000 and provide other relief to settle a lawsuit alleging unlawful retaliation under the Age Discrimination and Employment Act (ADEA), the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a Boulder, Colorado-based employee complained multiple times to human resources and management about age discrimination during

BALTIMORE – Schneider National, Inc., a Green Bay, Wisconsin-headquartered nationwide transportation and logistics company, violated federal law when it refused to reasonably accommodate an applicant with PTSD by denying her request to bring her service dog to work, and withdrawing its job offer because of her disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the lawsuit, Schneider National extended a conditional offer of employment to a qualified

DENVER – Midwest Farms, LLC y Midwest Capital Services, LLC, una empresa agroindustrial y relacionada que opera varias granjas en zonas rurales de Colorado, pagarán $334,500 y proporcionarán otras medidas de reparación para resolver una demanda por acoso sexual presentada por la Comisión para la Igualdad de Oportunidades en el Empleo de Estados Unidos (EEOC), según anunció hoy la agencia federal.

Según la demanda de la EEOC, un grupo de trabajadoras agrícolas fueron acosadas sexualmente

DENVER – Midwest Farms, LLC, and Midwest Capital Services, LLC, an agribusiness and related company operating several farms in rural Colorado, will pay $334,500 and provide other equitable relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a group of female farmworkers were repeatedly sexually harassed by a male employee who made regular sexual comments, propositioned female employees

BALTIMORE – Casino operators CBAC Borrower, LLC, doing business as Horseshoe Casino, Caesars Baltimore Management Co., LLC, and Caesars Entertainment, Inc., violated federal law when they discriminated against an employee on the basis of disability and engaged in unlawful retaliation and interference, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the companies discriminated against a man who worked as a table games dealer at their

ATLANTA – 1st Franklin Financial Corporation, a consumer lender with more than 370 branches throughout the Southeastern United States, will pay $750,000 to a class of former employees and provide other relief to settle a disability discrimination suit by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the suit, since 2022, 1st Franklin denied reasonable accommodations to its employees with disabilities and offered no alternative accommodations, including when its

ATLANTA – Penney OpCo, LLC, doing business as JC Penney, a retail department store chain with over 600 stores and distribution warehouses nationwide, violated federal law when it denied a warehouse employee a reasonable accommodation and then fired her because of her breast cancer, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, a warehouse associate at the JC Penney logistics center in Forest Park, Georgia

MONTROSE, Colo. – Montrose Memorial Hospital, Inc. doing business as Montrose Regional Health, a regional medical center in the San Juan Valley in southwestern Colorado, violated federal law again when it harassed and discriminated against older employees and retaliated against them when they complained, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

The EEOC previously sued the center in September 2016, before settling the suit via a three-year consent

DENVER – Talecris Plasma Resources, operator of blood plasma donation centers under the Grifols family of companies, violated federal law when it failed to make reasonable accommodation for a job applicant’s disability and rescinded her job offer based on the need to make reasonable accommodation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a nurse who applied for position at a Pueblo, Colorado plasma donation

ATLANTA – KGI Trading GA, Inc., and related business partners, operating in three states as seafood wholesaler Moon N Sea, denied employment opportunities to a class of qualified female applicants for warehouse positions based on their sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, a class of women applied for warehouse associate positions in Moon N Sea’s Buford, Georgia facility, but were passed over

ATLANTA – C&M Defense Group, LLC, a provider of security services to businesses in Atlanta, and now operating as Global Security Management Team, LLC, violated federal law by subjecting a security officer to sexual harassment and firing her after she complained about the abuse, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

The EEOC charged that a female security officer was subjected to sexual harassment by her immediate supervisor. The

BALTIMORE – American Multi-Cinema (AMC), a nationwide movie theatre chain, violated federal law when it forced an employee with a disability to leave his job, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the lawsuit, AMC, at its Owings Mills, Maryland location, violated federal law when it forced a 22-year employee with cerebral palsy to quit around September 2023 after it deprived him of reasonable accommodations which would

BALTIMORE – Roland Park Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, a residential health care facility in Baltimore City, and Atlas Healthcare, the management company operating Roland Park RHC, violated federal law by refusing to provide a reasonable accommodation to a pregnant employee and firing her instead, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

According to the suit, a certified nursing assistant told Roland Park RHC she was temporarily restricted by her

ATLANTA – Sam’s East, Inc. and Walmart Inc., which together operate a chain of warehouse club retail stores known as Sam’s Club, will pay $60,000 and undertake remedial measures to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s suit, the Sam’s Club in Douglasville, Georgia, refused to let a longtime employee return to her associate position in June 2022 following

ATLANTA – BWW Resources, LLC, which owns and operates Buffalo Wild Wings restaurants, agreed to pay $47,500 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s suit said that a server candidate, who wore long skirts in public because of her sincerely held religious beliefs, asked the general manager of Buffalo Wild Wings’ Douglasville, Georgia location about a job opening. The general

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Criswell Chevrolet, Inc., an automobile dealership, will pay $30,000 and provide other relief to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

The EEOC charged that Criswell Chevrolet violated federal law by refusing to allow a worker with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to have a service dog with him at work, leaving him no choice but to leave his employment.

Such

ATLANTA – Zoe Center for Pediatric & Adolescent Health, LLC, a provider of pediatric and adolescent health services in Columbus, Georgia, agreed to pay $70,000 to settle a disability discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s suit charged that in January 2022, an employee requested a reasonable accommodation of one day of leave, one week of remote work, and then a modified

BALTIMORE – Sinclair Broadcast Group, a nationwide broadcasting company, will pay $100,000 and provide other relief to settle a race discrimination case filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the lawsuit, Sinclair subjected a black female employee, a financial analyst, to unlawful pay discrimination and was constructively discharged because of her race. Despite her strong work performance at the company, she was undercompensated compared to other

DENVER – Chris The Crazy Trader, Inc., operating as Christopher’s Dodge Ram in Golden, Colorado, and formerly known as Christopher’s Dodge World, will pay $480,000 and provide other relief to settle a sex, race, and national origin harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Christopher’s Dodge Ram employees and managers used derogatory and demeaning language toward female employees and touched

ATLANTA – 1st Franklin Financial Corporation, a consumer lender with more than 370 branches throughout the southeastern United States, violated federal law by discriminating against a class of employees when it denied them reasonable accommodations and then fired them because of their disabilities, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it recently filed.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, 1st Franklin has denied reasonable accommodations to its employees with disabilities since 2022

ATLANTA – Action Insulation Co., a general contractor specializing in insulation installation and asbestos abatement located in Port Wentworth, Georgia, violated federal law by subjecting its office manager to sexual harassment by its owner, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it recently filed.

The EEOC alleges that Action Insulation’s owner, who is also its founder and chief executive officer, subjected the female office manager to sexual harassment, including by making

ATLANTA – Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Inc. (CHOA), a pediatric health care system based in Atlanta, will pay $50,000 and undertake remedial measures to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC charged in its suit that, in March 2021, CHOA rescinded a job offer to an applicant who had sought a disability-related exemption to CHOA’s flu vaccination requirement. After receiving a